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Latest Teacher’s Guides: April 2025
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- Ötzi the Iceman Reveals 5,300-Year-Old Secrets: DOC | Google Doc
- The Frozen Past: DOC | Google Doc
- Fire & Ice: DOC | Google Doc
- Freshwater Threat: Salt: DOC | Google Doc
- The Colors of Climate Change: DOC | Google Doc
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- October 2023: PDF | DOC | Google Doc
- December 2023: PDF | DOC | Google Doc
- February 2024: PDF | DOC | Google Doc
- April 2024: PDF | DOC | Google Doc
2022-2023
- October 2022: PDF | DOC | Google Doc
- December 2022: PDF | DOC | Google Doc
- February 2023: PDF | DOC | Google Doc
- April 2023: PDF | DOC | Google Doc
What Do We Know About Fireworks?
The content of “Fireworks” illustrates many chemistry topics, including redox reactions, thermochemistry, electron structure, spectroscopy, gas laws, and safety
Chocolate: The New Health Food — Or Is It?
The content of “Chocolate: The New Health Food. Or Is It?” illustrates a number of chemistry topics, including oxidation of free radicals in biochemistry, molecular structure, and organic chemistry functional groups.
- Crack the Code Puzzle (PDF)
- Photo-vowel-ic Effect Puzzle (PDF)
- Aligning Magnets Puzzle (PDF)
- Hidden Plastics Puzzle (PDF)
- Where's the Gold? Word Puzzle (PDF)
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